Lewis Aron
Internationally recognized teacher/lecturer on psychotherapy/psychoanalysis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lewis Aron was an American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, teacher and lecturer on psychotherapy and psychoanalysis who made contributions particularly within the specialty known as relational psychoanalysis. Aron was the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New York City. He was the founding president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and was formerly President of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. He was board certified in psychoanalysis by the American Board of Professional Psychology and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis . His 1996 volume A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis and his edited volume with Stephen Mitchell, Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition are considered two of the essential texts in contemporary American psychoanalysis. Together with Adrienne Harris, he edited the Relational Perspectives Book Series, which has published many of the texts in the field. Aron was one of the founders of the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives.
Lewis Aron's Published Works
Published Works
- A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (1996) (974)
- Relational psychoanalysis: The emergence of a tradition. (1999) (423)
- The patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity (1991) (367)
- Analytic impasse and the third: Clinical implications of intersubjectivity theory (2006) (228)
- Interpretation as expression of the analyst's subjectivity (1992) (131)
- Relational Perspectives on the Body (1998) (112)
- The Legacy of Sándor Ferenczi (2015) (103)
- Self-reflexivity and the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. (2000) (103)
- One person and two person psychologies and the method of psychoanalysis. (1990) (103)
- The internalized primal scene (1995) (98)
- The clinical body and the reflexive mind. (1998) (63)
- Ethical Considerations in the Writing of Psychoanalytic Case Histories (2000) (56)
- Generative Enactment: Memories From the Future (2015) (41)
- Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice (2017) (39)
- God's influence on my psychoanalytic vision and values (2004) (36)
- Working through the past — Working toward the Future (1991) (33)
- Evolution of process (2012) (33)
- From Ferenczi to Searles and contemporary relational approaches: Commentary on Mark Blechner's “working in the countertransference” (1992) (30)
- Mutual Regression: Altered States in the Psychoanalytic Situation (1998) (29)
- A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (2012) (27)
- “Yours, Thirsty for Honesty, Ferenczi”: Some Background to Sandor Ferenczi's Pursuit of Mutuality (1998) (23)
- Dreams, Narrative and the Psychoanalytic Method (1989) (23)
- The Tree of Knowledge: Good and Evil: Conflicting Interpretations (2005) (18)
- De-Idealizing Relational Theory (2018) (16)
- On Relational Psychoanalysis (2018) (16)
- Women on the Couch: Genital Stimulation and the Birth of Psychoanalysis (2011) (16)
- Symposium on the meaning and practice of intersubjectivity in psychoanalysis introduction (1996) (15)
- Innovation and expansion (2005) (14)
- Day, Night, or Dawn: Commentary on Paper by Steven Stern (2009) (13)
- Answering a Question with a Question: Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Jewish Thought (2015) (13)
- Ethical Considerations in Psychoanalytic Writing Revisited (2016) (12)
- On: Hans Loewald: a radical conservative. (2004) (12)
- From Hypnotic Suggestion to Free Association: Freud as a Psychotherapist, circa 1892–1893 (1996) (12)
- On the Unique Contribution of the Interpersonal Approach to Interaction (2005) (12)
- Sándor Ferenczi: Discovery and Rediscovery (2010) (12)
- Working toward operational thought: Piagetian theory and psychoanalytic method (1993) (11)
- Clinical choices and the theory of psychoanalytic technique: Commentary on papers by mitchell and by davies (1998) (11)
- Decentering Relational Theory (2018) (10)
- Relational psychotherapy in Europe: A view from across the Atlantic (2007) (10)
- Free association and changing models of mind. (1990) (10)
- Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2 : Innovation and Expansion (2013) (10)
- The emergence of a tradition (1999) (9)
- Clinical Outbursts and Theoretical Breakthroughs: A Unifying Theme in the Work of Stephen A. Mitchell (2003) (9)
- The Paradoxical Place of Enactment in Psychoanalysis: Introduction (2003) (8)
- Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 5 : Evolution of Process (2014) (8)
- Dramatic Dialogue: Dreaming & Drama in Contemporary Clinical Practice (2019) (8)
- Ferenczi's semiotic theory: Previews of postmodernism (1997) (8)
- Who is overlooking whose reality? Commentary on Tabin's "Freud's shift from the seduction theory: Some overlooked reality factors". (1994) (8)
- Self‐disclosure and the interactive matrix commentary on Kenneth A. Frank's paper (1997) (8)
- Intersubjectivity in the analytic situation. (2001) (7)
- Toward a Relational Individualism: The Mediation of Self Through Psychoanalysis: (1986) (2013) (7)
- Rethinking “Doublethinking”: Psychoanalysis and Scientific Research—An Introduction to a Series (2012) (7)
- “With you I’m Born Again”: Themes and Fantasies of Birth and the Family Circumstances Surrounding Birth as These are Mutually Evoked in Patient and Analyst (2014) (6)
- Analytic Impasse and the Third (2014) (6)
- Stressful life events and Rorschach content. (1982) (6)
- “Black Fire on White Fire, Resting on the Knee of the Holy and Blessed One” (2007) (6)
- The House of Difference: Enactment, A Play In Three Scenes (2013) (5)
- Reflections on Heinz Kohut's Religious Identity and Anti-Semitism (2007) (5)
- Discussion of “Bread and Roses: Empathy and Recognition” (2019) (5)
- “Living Memory”: Discussion of Avishai Margalit's “Nostalgia” (2011) (5)
- The emergence of the relational tradition (2018) (4)
- In Memory of Harold Searles: 1918–2015 (2017) (4)
- The prospective function (2017) (4)
- Psychoanalysis in the Workplace: An Introduction (2012) (4)
- “Yours, Thirsty for Honesty, Ferenczi”: Some Background to Sándor Ferenczi's Pursuit of Mutuality (1998) (4)
- Acceptance, Compassion, and an Affirmative Analytic Attitude in Both Intersubjectivity and Compromise Formation Theory: Commentary on Paper by Arnold Rothstein (2005) (4)
- Beyond Tolerance in Psychoanalytic Communities: Reflexive Skepticism and Critical Pluralism (2017) (3)
- Commentary: Tapping the Multiplicity of Self-Other Relationships. (2007) (3)
- Freud's Ironically Jewish Science: Commentary on Paper by Jill Salberg (2007) (3)
- Relational Psychotherapy in Europe (2014) (3)
- Disguised Autobiography as Clinical Case Study (2019) (2)
- Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4: Expansion of Theory (2011) (2)
- Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 14 : The Emergence of a Tradition (2013) (2)
- Selfless self-transcendence in the clinical setting as a source of self-enhancement (2020) (2)
- The Ego and the Yid, Revisited: Commentary on Daniel Gaztambide’s “A Preferential Option for the Repressed: Psychoanalysis Through the Eyes of Liberation Theology” (2015) (2)
- Deconstructing the Psychotherapy/Psychoanalysis Binary—The Case for Optimal Marginality: Commentary on Paper by Kenneth Frank (2013) (2)
- Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 3 : New Voices (2013) (2)
- Meeting Lew Aron's Mind: An Interview (2005) (1)
- "A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud": Response to Tabin. (1995) (1)
- Gains and Loss in Translation (2015) (1)
- On: Responding to Rachel Blass’ article ‘Affirming “That’s not psycho‐analysis!” On the value of the politically incorrect act of attempting to define the limits of our field’ (2010) (1)
- Freud and Ferenczi: Wandering Jews in Palermo (2015) (1)
- “Was It Good for You?”: Reply to Commentaries (2011) (1)
- jessica Benjamin Recognition and Destruction: An Outline of Intersubjectivity (1990) (2013) (1)
- Beyond tolerance in psychoanalytic communities (2018) (1)
- Answering a Question with a Question (2019) (1)
- Core Competency Four: Relational Dynamic : The There and Then and the Here and Now (2017) (1)
- “Poison Cookies”: Glimpses From the Psychoanalytic Laboratory: Introduction to Case Presentation and Commentaries (2013) (1)
- Toward a triadic relational theory an introduction (1999) (1)
- The Transference is Indeed a Cross: Commentary on Paper by Sue Grand (2013) (1)
- Freud, Ferenczi, and the case of Schreber: a mutual enactment of homoerotic longings, homophobia, and internalized anti-semitism (2016) (1)
- Unformulated Experience: From Familiar Chaos to Creative Disorder: (1983) (2013) (1)
- The Area of Faith in Winnicott, Lacan and Bion: (1981) (2013) (0)
- Jonah and Applied Psychoanalytic Dialogue: Introduction (2008) (0)
- Jody Messier Davies and Mary Gail Frawley Dissociative Processes and Transference- Countertransference Paradigms in the Psychoanalytically Oriented Treatment of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse (1991) (2013) (0)
- Therapeutic action and therapeutic traction (2017) (0)
- Commentaries (2001) (0)
- Dreams, narrative, and the psychoanalytic method (1989) (2020) (0)
- In Memoriam: Judith and Leopold Caligor: (516032006-003) (2004) (0)
- Savage Inequalities: Commentary on Laurel Silber’s “A View from the Margins: Children in Relational Psychoanalysis” (2015) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- “Going Out to Meet You, I Found You Coming Toward me”: Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Contemporary Psychoanalysis (2019) (0)
- Jeremy Safran (1952 −2018) (2018) (0)
- Introduction to De-Idealizing Relational Theory (2018) (0)
- Reminiscences of Mannie as a clinical supervisor (2018) (0)
- From the President's Desk: (404572005-001) (1998) (0)
- Introduction to Decentering Relational Theory (2018) (0)
- Clinical: The Mind of the Analyst and the Role it Plays in the Psychoanalytic Situation: (404622005-013) (1997) (0)
- Expansion of theory (2012) (0)
- Candidate Outreach Committee: Time, Process, and Complexity in Psychoanalytic Education: (670982007-007) (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Letters to the Editor: What if We Eliminated both the Practitioners and the Clinicians?: (404702005-003) (1995) (0)
- Psychoanalytic Healing, Love, Life, and Death: Commentary on Paper by Sheldon Bach (2008) (0)
- E L ESTUDIO PSICOLÓGICO COMPARADO DE LA PERCEPCIÓN DE LOS CONTORNOS DE ENTONACIÓN DECLARATIVO E INTERROGATIVO * T HE COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE PERCEPTION OF INTONATION CONTOURS FOR DECLARATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES (2014) (0)
- Remembering a Friend and a Teacher: Reflections on Stephen Mitchell’s Can Love Last?: Introduction to Papers by Merav Roth and Dana Amir (2018) (0)
- From the President's Desk: (404602005-001) (1997) (0)
- Reply to schwartz (1995) (0)
- Relational Psychoanalysis 3 Volume Set (2007) (0)
- Credo: Mutuality and Asymmetry* (2022) (0)
- At-one-ment, mutual vulnerability, and co-suffering (2017) (0)
- "A bit more light on Ferenczi and Freud": Response. (1995) (0)
- Publications of Stephen A. Mitchell, Ph.D.1 (2003) (0)
- Min(d)ing Michael Shoshani (Rosenbaum's) Dare to be Human: Introduction (2012) (0)
- Telephone Therapy: Survey: (404552005-009) (1999) (0)
- The Psychoanalytic Consortium: (404592005-018) (1998) (0)
- Emanuel Berman Psychoanalytic Supervision: The lntersubjective Development (2000) (2013) (0)
- Introduction to Discussions from the Launch of the Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott, 12-Volume Set, Edited by Lesley Caldwell and Helen Taylor Robinson (2018) (0)
- Book reviews--"Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness Before 1914," "Women of the Asylum: Voices from behind the walls, 1840-1945" and "The mad among us: A history of the care of America's mentally ill": (404642005-014) (1997) (0)
- Race, Roots, and Rhythm: Riffing on Rock ’n’ Roll: An Introduction (2015) (0)
- From the president's desk: (404582005-001) (1998) (0)
- Trauma, Enactment, and Dissociation; Controversies in Theory and Practice: A Review of "Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse, A Psychoanalytic Perspective": (404692005-014) (1995) (0)
- Selfless self-transcendence in the clinical setting as a source of self-enhancement (2020) (0)
- Introduction (2001) (0)
- The truth of the session (2017) (0)
- The New Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual: How Old is the Wine? How New are the Bottles?: (670982007-009) (2007) (0)
- From the President's Desk: The Dream Degree: Psychoanalysis in the Universities: (404592005-001) (1998) (0)
- Letters to the Editor: Reply to Schneider and Golland: (404702005-006) (1995) (0)
- Division 39 Spring Meeting, April 13-17, 1994, Washington, D.C.: The Meanings and Practice of Intersubjectivity in Psychoanalysis: (404742005-026) (1994) (0)
- On Knowing and Being Known: Theoretical and Technical Considerations Regarding Self-Disclosure (2013) (0)
- Unconscious plans and unconscious conflict. Reply to commentary (2005) (0)
- Comments and criticisms. (1993) (0)
- Panel Summaries: 21st Annual Spring Meeting: Doing it Passively: Inaction in Action: (308812005-016) (2001) (0)
- Election Platforms: Platform Statements for President Elect [Lewis Aron]: (404662005-006) (1996) (0)
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